More commonly known as bedbugs, the small, elusive parasites of the family Cimicidae have long been a blight upon New Yorkers. Spread apparently during the colliding bodies and one-night stands of rampant metrosexuality, these horrible blood drinkers are so easy to promulgate and so hard to exterminate that at certain times of the year, whether a prospective partner has bed bugs is a more pressing concern than his last STD checkup… and by many accounts, New York is currently in the throes of its worst bedbug scare yet.

It appears that no one is immune from the bedbug menace… not even Google, who have suddenly found their New York City headquarters completely ridden with the little blighters.

The word was first broken by a Google marketer, who tweeted: “jeepers i am not immune from the bedbug epidemic. bedbugs have been found at work.”

Google’s not the first tech company to be shut down by bedbugs: earlier in the year, Time Warner was evacuated due to a bedbug invasion.

It just goes to show. You might think you’re safe from bedbugs at work, but they congregate wherever hipsters and metrosexuals do, thirsty for blood. By that standard, Google HQ is the bedbug’s Xanadu.